Following yesterday‘s order by President Mohamed Mursi to recall to Egyptian parliament, they are expected to meet on Tuesday. It’s going to be a major battle with enormous implications for the nation.
That’s because the Egyptian High Court is reiterating its own ruling that the parliament must be disbanded, insisting its decision is final and binding. The military junta likewise defended its part in ousting parliament.
The junta went on to say that its additional rulings were “for the people,” including its claim to be the sole legislative power in the nation, while blasting “malicious accusations” that it made a deal with Mursi to allow parliament to return.
The restoration of parliament would be a boost to Mursi, as his Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is the largest plurality in the parliament and heads a grand coalition in it. This has led the nominally pro-democratic opposition blocs to blast Mursi’s efforts to restore parliament as a power grab.
Morsi should go on live TV and announce that since the Egyptian High Court members are all appointees of Mubarak and not responsive to the revolution, by the power accorded me by the people, I hereby declare the High Court disbanded.
If he doesn’t do something like that or similar, and if he doesn’t stand his ground right now, he will for ever be in shackles.
Yup. This is where it's going, or something like. Morsi has limited power — ie limited guns — but he does have the people behind him, and the court is, as you say, a discredited holdover from the discredited Mubarak regime.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, but you have to hand it to Morsi, he's got balls.
Wish we had leadership like that.
When the British reneged on their promise of Home Rule after the 1918 election in Ireland in which Sinn Fein gained a landslide victory, the delegates elected set up their parliament anyway in defiance of the Crown.
With the backing of a majority of Irish people they set up their own departments, courts and other downstream facilities. They were able to govern a large part of the state despite being technically outlawed. state raise a "National Loan" – in large part through subscriptions from the USA (how things have changed!). They also formed an army – the Irish Republican Army (IRA) that fought the British to a standstill and eventual departure from 26 of Ireland's 32 counties by 1922.
Where there's a will there's a way. Egyptians should not give up now.
The egyptian military is the US military. The people of egypt hopefully will rise up and bring back the parliament and have a country similar to turkey.
By resuming aid, the US gave the Egyptian military over a billion reasons to make the decision final and binding.